Wino Wednesday: Surviving Without
By Susan Mercedes. Filed in Wino Wednesday |
This Wino Wednesday post was inspired by my new house pour….Yellow Tail Shiraz-Cabernet. So delicious. So inexpensive. So worth my time. So worth sharing. (Photo is courtesy of the Yellow Tail website.)
I had a lovely evening drinking wine and hanging out with a friend (who, by the way, brought me dinner). We enjoyed a few glasses of wine. And by few, I mean heavy handed pours of my house wine. My friend and I chatted. We laughed. Friend left my house.
Then the worst thing EVER happened.
I went upstairs to wash my face. I set my phone on the bathroom counter. Hell, I’m never more than two feet away from it. I reached over to grab it. It slipped out of my hands. It fell on my cushy bathroom rug.
It shattered.
And left me with this face…
Suddenly I hate my hands for being slippery. I hate my iPhone for being fragile. I hate my bathroom rug for not being made of feathers. I hate my iPhone cover for not protecting it. I hate my iPhone for leaving glass shards in my hand. I hate drinking for causing clumsiness.
I hate…wait, I don’t hate anything!
Shit happens. (Although I still think the sad look in the photo is justified.)
Now I just wonder what I did before I had this piece of equipment. Hell, it’s only been in my life for a few years but it feels like I couldn’t live without it. Is there anything you have that you can’t imagine surviving without (besides other human beings)?
P.S. For those who care, I have an appointment at the Apple store to get a replacement at 10:10 am today. Twelve hours is long enough for me to be without this appendage.
Wino Wednesday…this weekly feature is designed to share my wine alcohol related stories.
Wednesday, February 24th 2010 at 9:44 am
i had an iphone for a month. i’ve now had a blackberry curve for two years. i would desperately love a new iphone to replace the curve. however, i strongly dislike the $200+ phone bill i have with the curve (i have four lines on my mobile plan) and getting an iphone won’t make it cheaper. i bought an ipod touch to give me my toy fix and am considering down-grading to one of those not-smartphones. i’m not sure i can do it. OR i wait until all 4 lines get contract-less and we consider moving to another network. but i miss the iphone so much.
Susan Mercedes Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
zeghsy: I can’t live without my iPhone. 12 hours was long enough. I’d pay any amount of money to keep that device in my hands. But that’s me…I have no boundaries. But really, FOUR lines? That’s a lot.
Wednesday, February 24th 2010 at 10:32 am
YAY that they replaced it for free. NEVER hate the drinking. The drinking is the LOVE!
Susan Mercedes Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Becky: I should know better than to blame the drinking. In fact, if it weren’t for the drinking, I probably wouldn’t be as good at flirting. Flirting got it replaced for free, I think. So…cheers to drinking.
Wednesday, February 24th 2010 at 10:34 am
sometimes the peeps at the apple stores can be such loves. free is ALWAYS good.
Susan Mercedes Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
zeghsy: I have several “boyfriends” at the Genius Bar. I love them. And I love free.
Wednesday, February 24th 2010 at 11:51 am
Aha!! And you scoffed at me for having the “iPhone bra.”
Susan Mercedes Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Suz: Well, at least something you have needs a bra!
I love you. xo
Wednesday, February 24th 2010 at 1:50 pm
http://www.otterbox.com/iphone-3g-3gs-defender-case
Has saved me from certain heartbreak many times over!
Susan Mercedes Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Anne: That would be smart. But my iPhone is the one thing I like small and slick. Wow, I feel dirty for saying that. But for reals, I bought a case and will be returning it because it makes my phone too bulky and it doesn’t slide in and out of my back pocket easily. You’re way more sensible.